Build processes to eliminate wastage and maximise the value returned from your software assets

Our Process Consulting services will help you to build processes, policies and governance to better manage your software estate, or indeed benchmark the processes you already have and look for ways to make them more efficient or effective.

Process Consulting Services at a glance

Good quality Software Asset Management is made up of three fundamental tenets; people, processes and technology. Whilst significant investment has been made in the latter over the last few years, with many organisations choosing to acquire a SAM Technology to help better manage their software assets, the processes that go hand in hand with such an acquisition are still a very often overlooked component to building an effective SAM programme.

Our Process Consultants are experts in designing and implementing SAM programmes. With accreditations and knowledge across most internationally accepted frameworks for IT Service and SAM delivery, such as ITIL, ISO or CSAM, they are able to bring this knowledge and capability to your organisation. Through one to one interviews and consultancy workshops our team are able to build a view of how you manage software today, accompanied by advice on how to improve your performance, benchmarked against best practice. They can even help you to define, design and implement a completely new SAM programme if that is what your business needs.

"Software license complexity costs organisations an average of 25% of their software license budgets"

Source: IDC

Why partner with Insight?

We have provided objective and vendor-independent license consulting and software asset management advice for over a decade, helping thousands of our clients to make better use of their software investments. Our LCS team includes world-class experts in licensing, software asset management and software contracts, which alongside our extensive benchmarking database, means that we are well-qualified to advise businesses on the best licensing strategies. Many of our consultants have actually joined our team directly from publishers such as Oracle, IBM, SAP & Microsoft, from both commercial and auditing roles, which gives them a unique insight into the inner workings of the publisher.

At Insight our purpose is to creating meaningful connections for our clients to help their businesses run smarter. Through our LCS team we are able to offer advice, support and guidance helping you to control and manage your software costs, eliminate wastage and inefficiency and ultimately helping you to create the meaningful connection between software expenditure and maximised, realised business value.

FAQ's

See our frequently asked questions here, or if you have an alternative query please contact us and a member of the team will be happy to help.

Process Consulting sounds expensive and with the potential to consume a lot of my team's time?

Not at all. Dependant on your need we have ways of keeping the interaction with your team and your time down to a minimum, whilst still getting the information we need. As with all of our SAM and LCS engagements we would typically charge this work on a fixed fee basis, rather than a time and materials basis, which would place the ownership on us to complete the work in timely fashion.

Do I really need an effective SAM programme – what are the tangible benefits of software asset management?

Put simply – eliminating wastage of software assets. Consider a physical asset in your estate such as a vehicle from a fleet, or a piece of equipment from a manufacturing centre. Your finance team will have very specific finance processes for amortising the deprecation of this asset over the term of its lifecycle, at the end of which will be another specific set of retirement processes for maximising any residual value retained in the asset back to your organisation. If a staff member leaves you simply don’t take their company car to the scrapyard? Yet very often this is exactly what is happening with software. Implementing a SAM Programme will eliminate this wastage along with a host of other commercial benefits.

I typically engage one of the big management consultancies for this type of business and process design service – why should I use you?

Our expertise in the specific vertical of Software Asset Management is far greater than any of the management consultancies you may already be engaged with. This is simply not an area where they retain the people or the intellectual property to be experts in. In fact some management consultancies have even historically outsourced this element of a wider programme of process design work to us, as they know how strong our capabilities are in this area.

Contact an Insight License Consulting Specialist

If you would like to discuss Insight's License Consulting Services in more detail, please contact a member of our team, who will be happy to connect with you and discuss.